Author: Global South Studies Series

By Sneha Surendran
Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country, sharing land borders with China, Laos and Cambodia. In the late-90s, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. The two-decade long Vietnam war that ended in 1975 had ravaged the Vietnamese economy, disrupting supply and demand lines, creating production issues, rising inflation, and plunging the country in debt...

By Sneha Surendran
Among the smallest countries in the world by land mass, Tuvalu is a Polynesian archipelago, comprising of nine main islands. It is situated mid-way between Hawaii and Australia in the south Pacific Ocean. The atoll of Funafuti is Tuvalu’s capital and houses more than half of the population...

By Ria Nair
The mere absence of tyranny does not entail the freedom to a just life. The Venezuelan people fleeing their homeland in hopes of a better life for themselves and their families understand this sentiment more than most...

By Bhavna Dahiya
The COVID-19 has taken cognizance of data and statistics but it has also exposed and in many cases, widened the global gap in quantitative capability...

By Avanish Nutenki
One of the major challenges that the world is facing today is climate change. According to the United Nations, “Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.” The earth’s climate has never been constant, the changes in this pattern are due to both natural and anthropogenic activities...

By Bhavna Dahiya
According to The State of the Climate in Africa 2021, rainfall trends are changing, glaciers are melting, and important rivers are getting smaller. Only 40% of Africans now have access to early warning systems against the consequences of extreme climate change and weather change...

By Shreyas Ernest Isaac
Financial inclusion is an important variable for any country to develop their economies, the World Bank found that in 2017, around 1.3 billion people did not have access to a formal financial institution or a mobile money provider, out of this 56 percent of all unbanked adults were women (World Bank Group, 2017)...

By Shreyas Ernest Isaac
Joseph Schumpeter in his theory of innovation argues that it is innovation done by entrepreneurs that generate profits (Schumpeter, 1934). India has had a long history of enterprise and innovation...

By Shreyas Ernest Isaac
The COVID-19 Pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the hardest challenges that countries have had to face in recent human memory. If there is one word which has brought much hope to all of us in the last few years, it has to be the word 'vaccine'...

By Kevin T Sabu
The global warming-induced melting of Antarctic and Arctic glaciers and ice has a detrimental impact on not just the ecology but also the humanitarian setting as well.  Various geographically smaller island states (SIS) such as Maldives, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, etc...